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The district's
decision comes days after the Los Angeles Unified School
District, the second largest in the country, hastily canceled
classes after receiving a threat that was later deemed to be a
hoax.
The school district in New Hampshire received threats against
students and staff at its two high schools specific to Monday,
Nashua schools Superintendent Mark Conrad said in a statement on
the district's website.
School officials have been working closely with Nashua police to
determine whether the threat is credible, he said.
"Because the threat is specific and extends to several schools,
we will be cautious and close all of our public schools in
Nashua tomorrow," Conrad said.
Conrad said he expected schools to reopen on Tuesday.
Los Angeles shut more than 1,000 public schools last Tuesday
over a threatened attack with bombs and assault rifles, sending
hundreds of thousands of students home. City leaders were
criticized for overreacting to what authorities later said was
apparently a hoax.
A string of similar threats has poured in to major school
systems across the country, although most stayed open or quickly
reopened.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Richard Pullin)
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